Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-28
The Closing of the Business Of the Day in
the City.
The Night Filled with Amusement and
Revslry.
The squalor of the Homes Of the Vicious
Described.
How Men are Lured to Destruction by
Smooth Villains.
The Fallen Deserving of More Sympathy
than the Upright.
wATGHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT.

wATGHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT.
BROOKLYN, May 15.-At the taber-
nacle this morning there were the same
great throngs of people as usual, over
flowing the main audience room into
the corridors, and from the corridors
into the street. This, the largest church
in America, is more and more made
quate to hold the people as the years
go by. All parts of the earth are rep
resented at every service. The pastor,
the Rev, Il. Dewitt Talmage, ID. d.,
took for his text this morning:
"Watchman, what Of the nighta" Isaiah
XXI, II.
He said: When night came down
on Babylon, Ninevah ard Jerusalem,
they needed careful watching, other
wise the incendiary's torch might have
been thrust into the very heart Of the
metropolitan splendor; or enemies,
marching frem the hills, might have
forced the gates. All night long, on
top of the wall and in front of The
gates, might be heard the measured
step of the Waterman on his solitary
beat; silence hung in the air, a as
some passer-by raised the question:
"Watchman, what of the nightP"
1t is to me a deeply suggestive and
solemn thing to see a man standing
guard by night. y thrilled through
me, as at the gate of an arsenal in
Charleston the question once smote me:
..Who comes therep" followed by the
sharp command: advance and give
the countersign."
EVERY MORAL TEACHER
stands on picket, or patrols the wall as
Waterman. HIS work is to sound the
alarm; and whether it be in the first
watch, in the second watch. in the
third watch, or in the fourth watch, tc
be vigilant until the daybreak filings its
.'morning glories" of blooming clout
across the arching trellis of the sky.
The ancients divided their night into
four parasitic first watch, from six tC
nine; the second, from nine to twelve
the third, from twelve to three; and
the fourth, from three to six.
L speak now OF the city in the third
watch, or from twelve to three O'Clock,
never weary of looking upon the
life and brilliancy of the city in the
first watch. That is the hour wher
the stores are closing. The laborlns
men. having quilted the s%caffolding ant
the shop, are on
THEIR WAY HOME.
It rejoices me to give them my seat il
the city car. They have stood ant
hammered away all day. Their fee
are weary. They are exhausted will
the tug of work. They are mostly
cheerful. With appetites sharpenet
on the swift turner's wheel and the
carpenters milestone, they seek the
evening meal. The clerks, too, have
broken away from the counter, anG
with brain weary of the long line Of
figures, and the whims of those who &C
~a-shopping seek the face of mother,
or wife and child. The merchants are
embarrassing themselves from their
anxieties, on their way up the street.
The boys that lock up are heaving away
at the shutters, showing the heavy bolts,
and taking a last look at the fire to see
that all is safe. The streets are
thronged with young men, setting out
from the great centers of bargain
making.
Let idlers clear the street, and give
right of way to the besweated artisans
and merchants! They have earned
their bread, and are now on their way
home to get it.
The lights in full jet hang over ten
thousand evening repasts-the parents
at either end of the table, the children
between.
THANK GOD,
.'who setteth the solitary in families"
A few hours later, and all the places
of amusement, good and bad, are in
full tide. Lovers of art, catalogue in
hand, stroll through the galleries and
discuss the pictures. The ballroom is
Respondent with the rich apparel of
those who, on either side of the white,
~glIstening boards, await the signal from
the ochestra. The footlights of the
theater flash up; the bell rings, and the
curtain rises; and out from the gor-
geous scenery glide the actors, greeted
with the vociferation of the expectant
multitudes Concert-halls are lifted
into enchantment with the MARBLE of
n songstress, or swept out on a sea OF